Please see the comments in reply to this one for the source. (Note: I'll only include the files cndecode.c, COPYING, and cph1_rev.c. The files in the cphack directory have remained unchanged.)
If the humans used EMP to blow up the matrix, then 'most' of mankind in the matrix would be killed. Their goal is not to kill everyone, but to save them one by one. I think you might have misunderstood. I was pondering why the pre-matrix humans didn't use EMP to destroy the AI that they were warring against. It seems like that would take less energe than tourching the sky, and it'd have a less harmful effect on the environment. There were a few inconsistancies with the Matrix, actually, but that's the one that bothered me the most.
I've go a spoiler explanation for the Matrix: The Matrix didn't contain any information about EMPs because the AI knew that if by chance anyone escaped they'd use EMP against them. The real questions are: How did they know the term for "EMP"? Why didn't the humans use EMP against the AI in the beginning? If they had enough tech to torch the sky they had enough to unlease a massive EMP that would have disabled all the AI. If that's explained away by saying that the AI had protection against EMP built into them, why didn't they use it with the squids? Hmmm?
I'm pretty sure the prople "exploiting someone for personal gain" were his parents. They also helped him back into his chair before they left. It looked like a very common occurence and they seemed to handle it very matter of factly.
But the quote: "You'll probably see this shift in market cap continue," Cristinziano said referring to Cisco's market capitalisation. Seemed a little funny to me.
The designers behind this better be going to som kind of super-duper proprietary FP monster of a processor that will be doing the graphics along with the NVidia and Intel parts or this thing is going to be much slower than the other stuff that's out. By the way, what form-factor will this need to dissipate the heat of the toaster^H^H^H^H^H^H^HProcessor that's inside it? Aren't the Coppermine 600s the ones everyone is having problems with anyway? What if my freaking X-box takes two presses of the power switch to turn on? By the way, here's how they're going to make it proprietary: Software sound. That way the processor gets some usage and Linux won't work on it.
No matter what talent Robin might have he's become one of the biggest Oscar whores next to Meryl Streep and Jim Carrey (who's last two movies were obviously oscar ploys.) That makes him pretty distasteful to me.
1. Individual applications often perform security audits looking for buffer overruns and the like. Also, a buffer overrun found in gnu grep would be fixed and benefit all operating systems that it can be compiled on.
2. I use RedHat as my single point of contact. It's worked very well so far. Linuxtoday also publishes when security patches are released.
3. The community keeps an eye on this, and if the Ukrainian fixes the problem and there seems to be a consensus that that is the proper fix, I'd install it without compunctions. Hence the quickness of the response. Besides, the community mobilizes pretty quickly. It's not like there's just you and that Ukrainian working on the problem.
4. As 2 and 3 are not a problem, 4 isn't either. There are many people dedicated to finding security bugs, and many amatuers who stumble upon them. With many eyes, all bugs are shallow. As is all FUD.
Maybe they were afraid that if they used proprietary hardware, their boxes wouldn't run Windows.
Actually, it was DOS that they were afraid it wouldn't run.
Since the hardware manufacturers can change Linux, they no longer have that worry. The temptation to build proprietary hardware (for whatever purpose) re-enters the picture.
(knock knock knock) HELLO! McFly! Have you heard of Wintel? Does the term "duopoly" mean anything to you? The hardware may be "open" in a sense, but Intel holds patents over a very large part of it.
Besides, proprietary hardware has been found to be a Bad Idea. Like Communism, it just doesn't work. Linux's popularity will have no effect on that.
Then you have the source for Linux, but it's only X-box Linux that won't run on anything else. So you've got the source, what good is it?
It's a lot of good. It gets merged into the kernel and the good stuff is kept while the crap is thrown out. Then it's just plain ol' Linux that now supports X-box. Of course, it's improved faster than the forked version, and the people who were doing the forked version realize that the kernel proper with X-box support is moving faster and just start sending patches to Alan. He approves many of the patches and the X-box people are made maintainers of the X-box part of the code. They also submit patches to the regular kernel and everybody benefits.
Remember, though, that while they are "ditching AIX" they're working hard on Monterey. It would seem that their energies would be better spent by devoting more resources to making sure Linux works and works well on everything from their Mainframes to their imbedded real-time systems if for no other reason that a common code base increases the amount of code that's shared within the company and within the community. If a company wants to take profitability out of the OS market Linux is the best way to do it.
If a number of people sue Mattel for denying them information about their company's products, or blocking access to sites without their permission? Isn't there a way to convince the courts that this kind of tactic harms customers?
Are there (m)any jobs out there for someone who knows admin but not C? I haven't had the time to learn C, but I've been making shell scripts lately and they're fun. Phone tech support pays the bills, but it'd be kind of fun to have work with Linux while actually getting paid.
Actually, there is a way to "do it right" and a reason. I don't want my thirteen year old son to surf porn. As it is now, I look in his "History" folder every once in a while, and the couple of times we caught him, punished him. It'd be better to have a software program that we could trust, that was fairly easy to set up, that we knew what it was blocking, and that was configurable to only block porn. I wouldn't want a site that said, "Shut the fuck up!" blocked, but T&A should be. Of course, I don't want that blocked for my wife and I in case our sex life hits the skids. (Imagine, remember that damn password honey, or order me some damn Viagra from Drugstore.com!!!)
Anyway, there are legitimate uses for filtering, but the companies offering such software now are doing the genre more harm than good. I currently have one domain that I want blocked on my system at work, and I don't need commercial software to block it. I just tell Internet Exploder to not use the proxy for *.doubleclick.net. Works like a charm!
Again I'm impressed, and I'm not easily impressed. (Simpson's reference: Homer: Wow! A blue car!) This is a thoughtful and well articulated article by a non-marketriod, non-Linux zealot that I feel has increased my understanding of things, has kept me occupied for more than ten minutes, and made me think.
For those of you complaining of lack of "News for Nerds" and "Stuff that matters." you have no farther to look than here.
All he's saying is, "it's a bad system, but I didn't make the rules and I'd like to change them". Actually, he's saying a little bit more than that. He's also saying, "We're not going to shoot ourselves in the foot because we don't believe the law is exactly right. We're going to work at making our IP less valuable, but only if it'll make everybody else's less valuable as well." This is all about a level playing field, and as much money as Amazon is losing, they need one. Remember, IBM is the biggest software patent holder out there and we celebrate when they submit a patch to Apache. At least Bezos is talking about going in the right direction on this. If it turns out to be empty promises, we'll all know and this will have done him harm. I don't think Jeff would be willing to ruin his reputation with so many geeks for a short term gain in popularity.
That's incorrect. He's saying that Amazon is in a life or death struggle and that he'd not be meeting his fiduciary obligation to his shareholders if he didn't do everything possible to put his company in the best competitive position, however, he realizes that the current patent situation is not a good one, and he would like to be an agent of change.
To put this in a way you may understand better:
What happened to Obi Wan Kenobe when he turned off his lightsaber?
No matter what shenanigans Amazon has pulled thus far, I don't want to see them get their asses handed to them by B&N.
I got a good feeling from reading this letter. Both at how much sway Tim O'Reily has, and at how much possible sway Jeff Bezos could have. The whole patent issue could be made much better because Amazon was called to the carpet on their One-click patent. Despite how upset I've been about this issue, I'm willing to give Jeff the time to get working on this and will back him and Tim up on this.
Perhaps if I were to make a computer that looks like an oven, smells like an oven (hell, even bakes like an oven) I did that with my Celeron 300A a while back.
Actually, I could use a Tandem emulator at work. We're using Outside View and I frankly don't like it. I'd rather have a connection to the Tandem running in an Xterm or something.
I'm afraid we've been seeing MS-TCP/IP for a while now. No version of Windows currently supports the full TCP/IP spec. In fact, Linux only got full support recently.
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Please see the comments in reply to this one for the source.
(Note: I'll only include the files cndecode.c, COPYING, and cph1_rev.c. The files in the cphack directory have remained unchanged.)
If the humans used EMP to blow up the matrix, then 'most' of mankind in the matrix would be killed. Their goal is not to kill everyone, but to save them one by one.
I think you might have misunderstood. I was pondering why the pre-matrix humans didn't use EMP to destroy the AI that they were warring against. It seems like that would take less energe than tourching the sky, and it'd have a less harmful effect on the environment.
There were a few inconsistancies with the Matrix, actually, but that's the one that bothered me the most.
I've go a spoiler explanation for the Matrix:
The Matrix didn't contain any information about EMPs because the AI knew that if by chance anyone escaped they'd use EMP against them. The real questions are:
How did they know the term for "EMP"?
Why didn't the humans use EMP against the AI in the beginning? If they had enough tech to torch the sky they had enough to unlease a massive EMP that would have disabled all the AI. If that's explained away by saying that the AI had protection against EMP built into them, why didn't they use it with the squids? Hmmm?
I'm pretty sure the prople "exploiting someone for personal gain" were his parents. They also helped him back into his chair before they left. It looked like a very common occurence and they seemed to handle it very matter of factly.
But the quote:
"You'll probably see this shift in market cap continue," Cristinziano said referring to Cisco's market capitalisation.
Seemed a little funny to me.
Would it not let you boot to single user mode or "$telinit 1"?
The designers behind this better be going to som kind of super-duper proprietary FP monster of a processor that will be doing the graphics along with the NVidia and Intel parts or this thing is going to be much slower than the other stuff that's out. By the way, what form-factor will this need to dissipate the heat of the toaster^H^H^H^H^H^H^HProcessor that's inside it? Aren't the Coppermine 600s the ones everyone is having problems with anyway? What if my freaking X-box takes two presses of the power switch to turn on? By the way, here's how they're going to make it proprietary: Software sound. That way the processor gets some usage and Linux won't work on it.
Neither do I. The artifacts are apparent all the time. Not just when signal quality has degraded. It's very much like a fairly low quality jpeg image.
Time Warner's digital cable suffers from this as well. Neither my wife nor my son notice, but I can see the artifacts of lossy compression.
No matter what talent Robin might have he's become one of the biggest Oscar whores next to Meryl Streep and Jim Carrey (who's last two movies were obviously oscar ploys.) That makes him pretty distasteful to me.
1. Individual applications often perform security audits looking for buffer overruns and the like. Also, a buffer overrun found in gnu grep would be fixed and benefit all operating systems that it can be compiled on.
2. I use RedHat as my single point of contact. It's worked very well so far. Linuxtoday also publishes when security patches are released.
3. The community keeps an eye on this, and if the Ukrainian fixes the problem and there seems to be a consensus that that is the proper fix, I'd install it without compunctions. Hence the quickness of the response. Besides, the community mobilizes pretty quickly. It's not like there's just you and that Ukrainian working on the problem.
4. As 2 and 3 are not a problem, 4 isn't either. There are many people dedicated to finding security bugs, and many amatuers who stumble upon them. With many eyes, all bugs are shallow. As is all FUD.
Actually, it was DOS that they were afraid it wouldn't run.
Since the hardware manufacturers can change Linux, they no longer have that worry. The temptation to build proprietary hardware (for whatever purpose) re-enters the picture.
(knock knock knock) HELLO! McFly! Have you heard of Wintel? Does the term "duopoly" mean anything to you? The hardware may be "open" in a sense, but Intel holds patents over a very large part of it.
Besides, proprietary hardware has been found to be a Bad Idea. Like Communism, it just doesn't work. Linux's popularity will have no effect on that.
Then you have the source for Linux, but it's only X-box Linux that won't run on anything else. So you've got the source, what good is it?
It's a lot of good. It gets merged into the kernel and the good stuff is kept while the crap is thrown out. Then it's just plain ol' Linux that now supports X-box. Of course, it's improved faster than the forked version, and the people who were doing the forked version realize that the kernel proper with X-box support is moving faster and just start sending patches to Alan. He approves many of the patches and the X-box people are made maintainers of the X-box part of the code. They also submit patches to the regular kernel and everybody benefits.
That's what good it does.
Remember, though, that while they are "ditching AIX" they're working hard on Monterey. It would seem that their energies would be better spent by devoting more resources to making sure Linux works and works well on everything from their Mainframes to their imbedded real-time systems if for no other reason that a common code base increases the amount of code that's shared within the company and within the community. If a company wants to take profitability out of the OS market Linux is the best way to do it.
If a number of people sue Mattel for denying them information about their company's products, or blocking access to sites without their permission? Isn't there a way to convince the courts that this kind of tactic harms customers?
Are there (m)any jobs out there for someone who knows admin but not C? I haven't had the time to learn C, but I've been making shell scripts lately and they're fun. Phone tech support pays the bills, but it'd be kind of fun to have work with Linux while actually getting paid.
Will someone please put up a server on port 1080? We have a firewall at work and it'd be nice to circumvent it.
Anyway, there are legitimate uses for filtering, but the companies offering such software now are doing the genre more harm than good. I currently have one domain that I want blocked on my system at work, and I don't need commercial software to block it. I just tell Internet Exploder to not use the proxy for *.doubleclick.net. Works like a charm!
For those of you complaining of lack of "News for Nerds" and "Stuff that matters." you have no farther to look than here.
All he's saying is, "it's a bad system, but I didn't make the rules and I'd like to change them".
Actually, he's saying a little bit more than that. He's also saying, "We're not going to shoot ourselves in the foot because we don't believe the law is exactly right. We're going to work at making our IP less valuable, but only if it'll make everybody else's less valuable as well."
This is all about a level playing field, and as much money as Amazon is losing, they need one. Remember, IBM is the biggest software patent holder out there and we celebrate when they submit a patch to Apache. At least Bezos is talking about going in the right direction on this. If it turns out to be empty promises, we'll all know and this will have done him harm. I don't think Jeff would be willing to ruin his reputation with so many geeks for a short term gain in popularity.
Nice. Thanks for the laugh. That's what I get for trying a sci-fi metaphor.
To put this in a way you may understand better:
What happened to Obi Wan Kenobe when he turned off his lightsaber?
No matter what shenanigans Amazon has pulled thus far, I don't want to see them get their asses handed to them by B&N.
I got a good feeling from reading this letter. Both at how much sway Tim O'Reily has, and at how much possible sway Jeff Bezos could have. The whole patent issue could be made much better because Amazon was called to the carpet on their One-click patent. Despite how upset I've been about this issue, I'm willing to give Jeff the time to get working on this and will back him and Tim up on this.
Bravo, Jeff. Good job.
Perhaps if I were to make a computer that looks like an oven, smells like an oven (hell, even bakes like an oven)
I did that with my Celeron 300A a while back.
Actually, I could use a Tandem emulator at work. We're using Outside View and I frankly don't like it. I'd rather have a connection to the Tandem running in an Xterm or something.
I'm afraid we've been seeing MS-TCP/IP for a while now. No version of Windows currently supports the full TCP/IP spec. In fact, Linux only got full support recently.